Using important plant areas and important bird areas to identify Key Biodiversity Areas in the Republic of Macedonia

Avitourism and Australian Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas

Formal protected areas will not provide adequate protection to conserve all biodiversity, and are not always designated using systematic or strategic criteria. Using a systematic process, the Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) network was designed to highlight areas of conservation significance for birds (i.e. IBA trigger species), and more recently general biodiversity. Land use activi...

Using probability of persistence to identify important areas for biodiversity conservation.

Most attempts to identify important areas for biodiversity have sought to represent valued features from what is known of their current distribution, and have treated all included records as equivalent. We develop the idea that a more direct way of planning for conservation success is to consider the probability of persistence for the valued features. Probabilities also provide a consistent bas...

A Model Web approach to modelling climate change in biomes of Important Bird Areas

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Finding important areas in images using conditional random field

Finding importance areas from images has been an important topic in graphics, multimedia and vision. In this paper, we present a supervised learning approach. We first collect a training set of color images and the labeled importance maps. Then we apply supervised learning to predict the importance maps as a function of the image. Our model uses a grid-shaped conditional random field that incor...

Important Bird Areas in Africa and associated islands – Cape Verde ■ CAPE VERDE